World: Ireland

Noel and Aileen Gilson, parents of TV presenter Glenda Gilson, lost their €1million Dublin home Friday to Shoreline Residential Dac after the investment fund refused a final offer of €303,000 to settle their outstanding debts against their mortgage. [...]

There is no legal bar to publicans obtaining late night license extensions allowing them to serve drinks into the early hours on Good Friday, the President of the Circuit Court, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, ruled today Friday.The appeal was allowed[...]

Two men have been arrested in connection with a fire in Inchicore last year that left a mother and her three young children in hospital. Gardai in Kilmainham have announced that two men, one aged in his 20s, the other in his 30s, were arrested this[...]

The review pointed out that there was a considerable number of public order incidents in the area in the run up to the 2014 protest.During the incident, anti-water protesters, including Solidarity TD Paul Murphy, prevented a car transporting then[...]

Water restrictions in the greater Dublin area may be reduced at the weekend, Irish Water has said .Some 12,750 homes and businesses countrywide remain without a water supply and 27,484 have a restricted supply following last week’s winter[...]

A DUBLIN couple who were accused of not paying for a family meal in a pub have been awarded €20,000 damages for defamation of character. Patrick O’Connor told Circuit Court President, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, he felt he had no choice but to empty [...]

Simon Harris outlined over 20 clauses in a policy paper on the proposed abortion legislation.Yesterday, the Cabinet approved the policy paper, which includes over 20 clauses or key points, that will be included in the abortion legislation (should a[...]

The husband of missing woman Tina Satchwell has visited the Cork woodland being intensively searched by gardaí for his wife, as he said he was praying she would be found safe. Yesterday marked the fourth day of the intensive Garda search operation[...]

An Irish physicist found guilty of attempted murder was sentenced to seven years and seven months in a psychiatric hospital in Portugal. Colin Gloster (37), from Co Meath, had denied trying to kill a female professor with a hatchet at the University [...]

<p>Some communities in the capital and Wicklow are still struggling to deal with the aftermath of the blizzards</p>Accumulations of snow on the higher grounds of the greater Dublin area have led to overhanging shelves of snow, as communities[...]

The death toll from flu rose to 136 as the country was stricken with deep snow and sub-zero conditions. Twenty deaths were notified last week among mostly elderly people, and 175 patients were hospitalised with the virus.Although flu rates are[...]

Baby Joshua Tighe, whose father is on trial accused of his murder, had paper that matched two different tissue boxes in his throat when he died, a forensic scientist has told the Central Criminal Court. John Tighe (40), of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis,[...]

Abigail Slater is believed to be the only Irish person in the US president's administrationAbigail - or 'Gail' - Slater has been appointed to a key position on the US government's national economic council. She started her new job in the White[...]

The husband of missing woman Tina Satchwell has said he will spend the first anniversary of his wife's disappearance in tears.Tuesday marks the first anniversary of Tina's disappearance from her home in the Cork seaside town of […]

Donald Trump claims he's become 'best friends' with Taoiseach Leo VaradkarUS President Mr Trump said this to the gathering in the East Wing of the White House last night who came to see Taoiseach Varadkar present President Trump with a Waterford Crystal bowl full of shamrock […]

Brian Stack’s son Austin says Maire Devine’s retweet represented a “gross defaming” of his father.Sinn Féin has said it will be asking Senator Máire Devine for an explanation after she retweeted a post by a parody government account […]

<p>The Taoiseach has batted away suggestions he "made a show of himself" in Washington DC in the controversy about his intervention in a planning dispute involving Donald Trump's golf course in Doonbeg.</p>Speaking in New York, shortly before he was due to march in the […]

There have been calls to introduce tasers for rank-and-file officers.Uniformed members of An Garda Síochána were placed outside some high-risk gangland targets this week due increased fears of a threat to the North Dublin based […]

The estranged husband of a woman who was found dead in a wardrobe in a Dublin flat last month has been charged with her murder. Keith Lee (42) appeared at a special sitting of Dublin District Court in the Criminal Courts of Justice yesterday morning charged in relation to the death of […]